{"id":2359,"date":"2009-11-30T11:16:04","date_gmt":"2009-11-30T16:16:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=2359"},"modified":"2009-11-30T11:18:17","modified_gmt":"2009-11-30T16:18:17","slug":"congress-still-rich","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/2359\/congress-still-rich\/","title":{"rendered":"Congress Still Rich"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A few members of Congress took a financial hit this year due to the recession but according to <em>Roll Call<\/em>, the 50 Richest Members of Congress are still worth approximately $1.3 billion.<\/p>\n<p>It pays to be a professional politician too, as 4 of the 5 richest members have \u201cserved\u201d a combined 74 years in Congress.  A freshmen politico, Senator Mark Warner (D-VA), adds new money to the pile with a minimum net worth of $72 million.<\/p>\n<p>You can <a href=\"http:\/\/innovation.cqpolitics.com\/cq-rollcall\/richest_members_of_congress_2008\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">click here<\/span><\/a> for the list or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rollcall.com\/features\/Guide-to-Congress_2009\/guide\/38181-1.html\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">click here<\/span><\/a> for the story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few members of Congress took a financial hit this year due to the recession but according to Roll Call, the 50 Richest Members of Congress are still worth approximately $1.3 billion. It pays to be a professional politician too, as 4 of the 5 richest members have \u201cserved\u201d a combined 74 years in Congress. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[84,563],"class_list":["post-2359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-congress","tag-mark-warner"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2359","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2359"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2359\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2361,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2359\/revisions\/2361"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}